A Great Fan of Jim Henson's

Another positive story about Asperger's Syndrome.  I see a new trend here.

Young Puppet Master

Follow-Up With The Sleep Doctor

Yesterday afternoon before the thunderstorms hit Boston, I met with my sleep doctor and his new assitant regarding the use of my CPAP.  The assistant asked me a ton of questions how my sleep has changed.  I did mention the problem of the first mask I used when I started using the CPAP on June 12.  The mark on my forehead is still visible and has hardly faded away.  The nostril pillow that replaced the mask is better and more comfortable at night though.  I am using the small nostrils size instead of the meduim and large sizes.

It's always been hard for me to tell how good or bad my sleep is or at least remember how my sleep went in general.  I have so many other concerns right now: Work, blog, memoir, my two cats, etc.  Living alone with two cats leaves me with cleaning up after them and feeding them.  They always have to remind me of giving them fresh water.  Otherwise they wake me up in the middle of the night.

Now the sleep doctor wants me to turn off most of the lights at my condo after 8:00 pm and get to bed at 11:00 pm.  This leaves me little time to put entries in the blog during the week and work on my memoir.  I hope this improves my sleep.

I had a headache and my sinuses were bothering all day yesterday.  It might have been stress related.  When I finally got home (I went to the store after seeing the doctor), I was very tired the whole evening.  I actually got to bed around 11:30 PM.

Coincedences

Regarding that awful car accident I had, it was on December 6, 2004, the 16th anniversary of Roy Orbison's death.  Two cars hit my Mustang from behind causing it to skid on the icy bridge.  The car radio was on when it hit the wire fence and I just sat there feeling relieved that I was still alive despite my injuries to my neck, back and right knee.  I recognized the song "Pretty Paper" by Roy Orbison!

After smelling the burnt rubber of the tires, I scrambled out of the car and look across at the two other cars.  After talking to the other drivers, I looked down the street opposite of where my Mustang had crashed and saw the radio station my car radio was tuned to: WODS, Oldies 103.

Then I couldn't help but remember WHTT, the radio station I interned at in early part of 1986 in the Prudential Tower.  WHTT later became WMRQ in July 1986 before moving to Downtown Crossing later that year and then became WODS in October 1987.  I can't remember when they moved to Leo Birmingham Parkway in Brighton, their current location.

Freddie Mercury, Somebody Still Loves You!

Last night, I got my latest NetFlix DVD, Queen - Live at Wembley Stadium.  I enjoyed it immensely!  In the past I have only seen the videos from this movie, but not the whole thing.  I didn't have the opportunity to buy the VHS when it came out back in 1990, a year before Freddie's untimely death because of AIDS.  That's because I bought my first VCR in September 1992.  I didn't feel like buying the VHS because videotape, just like audio tape, breaks.  In fact, I don't have a lot of VHS tapes in my possession.  I don't play the ones I have very often these days.  I am definately going to put this Queen DVD on my birthday/X-Mas wishlist.

In the memoir I'm working on, I mention Freddie's name a lot.  In fact, I title one of my chapters, "Radio Ga-Ga."  I show flashbacks to where I was when I heard my very first Queen song, how I found out about his death in 1991and what was happening to me on the 10th anniversary of his death (November 24, 2001).

One of my biggest regrets in life is that I never had the chance to see Queen in person.  It devastated me tremendously when I heard the sad news that Freddie had died.  When I was a disc jockey, I played a lot of Queen's songs.

Favorite Queen song: Tie between "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions"

Articles That Helped Me Realize That I Have AS and NLD

While I was being diagnosed, I discovered the OASIS website (the link to its home page is in My Favorite Websites Section).  I read these articles and the experience was the discovery of my authentic self - a person with neurological disorders.

Asperger's Syndrome

Non-Verbal Learning Disorder

Wow! That Was Fast!

Starting this week, WZLX has a new morning team called Karlson & McKenzie.  In the late 1990's they were doing a morning show at Boston's Eagle, which later became Star 93.7 in 1999 and now just became Mike FM in 2005.  They are the replacements for Steve Sweeney who was let go last month.  They have been in Upstate New York during the last six years in Rochester and Poughkeepsie doing morning radio.

I didn't expect to see WZLX to find a new morning team in less than a month's time.  My guess is they must have them in mind when they dumped Steve.  I've listened to the first two shows and liked them.  At least they're funny.  I didn't have the chance to listen to them when they were at Eagle before it crash landed.  Hope they are longer than the last time they were here.

Climb Every Mountain!

Here's a great story about a 7-year old boy with Aspeger's Syndrome who climbed Mt. Rainer. 

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002397548_climbers23e.html